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- The Month of Elul
A. Elul is a time of awakening for teshuva, and every person must work to fix that which is within him. In the book Orot HaTeshuva, Rav Avraham Yitzhak HaKohen Kook zt"l wrote several times that there are people for whom teshuva brings despair and weakens their mind ("Where do I stand?", "How much have I sinned?", and so on).
This is forbidden! A person must know that even if he stumbled once, even if he acted incorrectly, he should always strive forward. So if a person knows he has a set time to do teshuva - and there are Rishonim who think that doing teshuva is a mitzvah - then surely it should give a person strength and incentive to do teshuva.
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Various Events FOR WHOM NOT TO VOTE
Rav Zvi Yehuda Kook stressed that Israeli politics is G-dly, so I have no problem answering this common question on a Torani blog. Also, Free-Will is a G-d-given right and obligation, to "destine one's fate" (R. Soloveichik, Kol Dodi Dofek, 67), so I obviously don't tell others how to vote. But once not a few (especially young) have already asked, a couple of personal words from experience and thoughts from chazal & Rav Kook which may be of help to others, mainly for whom NOT to vote.
P'ninat Mishpat Fallout from Failure to Install Elevator – part II
based on ruling 85007 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts
